Alexander Choukér

Alexander Choukér attended medical school at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, Germany. He completed clinical and some scientific training at the LMU and worked as a Fogarty award researcher at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the NIH in Bethesda, MD, USA. Currently he is based in the department of Anaesthesiology at the LMU. In a joint endeavor with his team several experimental, clinical and space flight related studies in the field of stress-associated immune consequences have been conducted. Here, especially inter-and cross-disciplinary research for the fundamental understanding of adaptation as well as monitoring of humans exposed to extreme environments, all with the goal of mitigating health risks.